Ptunes > Bejeweled > Boat Anchor

Welp, after about 1.5 years, my Treo 600 is now a Boat Anchor. I was listening to some streaming Shoutcast station via Ptunes, and decided to play Astraware's Bejeweled at the same time. Twenty seconds into it, my earphones were blaring this god-awful racket and the system was completely frozen. My only recourse was a soft-reset. But guess what... that was the last time I ever saw so much as an indicator light on this thing. No Palm bootup screen, no flashing lights, no response to further soft-reset attempts, just nothing... When I got it home I stuck it on the cradle, and XP complained of an unrecognized USB device. And still no indicator lights of any color. I've pretty much resolved myself to the hard truth that this thing is FRIED, but if anyone has a suggestion before I throw it in the landfill, I'm all ears.

I had something similar happen to me a few weeks ago. I did soft, then hard reset. Dead. or so I thought. I plugged the device in to charge and in 10 minutes it worked great.

I assumed it was because I didn't have much power - but in that 10 minutes I had gotten the battery to atleast 80%. I knew the device was mostly charged prior, but it was almost like the device didn't know it had charge - and only came back to life after getting a shot of juice.

Try plugging it in and seeing what happens. As I said, it only took 10 minutes for it to come back.

My cradle is (and has been forever) hooked up to the wall outlet for charging. The wall outlet is indeed functional. Per Wildcard's suggestion, I've left the unit in the cradle/charger for quite a while now. If I pull the Treo out, I can feel a slight warmth coming from the back of the unit, implying to me that the unit is getting some juice from the outlet. However, still no indicator light whatsoever, and still very much a boat anchor in every other respect. I guess I'll take it apart *again* and see if I can't reseat something somewhere.

I had a similar problem with my ipaq once, no amount of farting around fixed it. Did some googling and found out that if I left it to charge for a few days it would magically come back. It did. I won't pretend to know the whys but it worked.

After opening *again* the unit and inspecting and reseating anything I could find that was inspectable and reseatable, AND after leaving it in the charging cradle for probably a day and a half, I've come to accept the sad truth that this thing is just plain friggin' hosed. I'd give it a proper burial, but I'm just too bitter about the whole experience to be honest.

I think I'll whittle my dillemma down now to simply choosing a replacement 650, or an iPAQ hw6515. Palm is on my sh*tlist right now, so HP's looking like it's got a slight lead. Until then, it's back to my ancient Treo 180... Wow! I can't believe I actually used this thing full-time once!